Pete Doherty Couldn’t Get into His Own Party

While Andrew Saffir’s Cinema Society screening of Cyrus was a sophisticated affair, with guests such as John C. Reilly,Marisa Tomei,Ed Burns, and Courtney Love (yes, even the rock star was the picture of refinement) mingling about the basement of the Crosby Street hotel, sipping Appleton Estate rum cocktails, a more rambunctious throw-down was taking place across town at Milk Studios.

Looong, long lines of models, hipsters, and scene-sters were queuing up, hoping to get into the 15th Street space, as bad boy Libertines lead singer Pete Doherty was set to perform along with music-god offspring Sean Lennon and Romanian-born Canadian model Irina Lazareanu. The cause for celebration was the launch of Corduroy magazine, a new publication that seeks to spotlight trendsetters who never go out of style. It was hosted by We Work, a creative communal office space in New York City, with additional US and global spaces opening, that specializes in rents spaces to creative people.

Lazareanu then performed with Lennon and Lennon’s girlfriend, Charlotte Kemp Muhl, covering Bob Dylan’s “Girl from the North Country” and playing an original Lennon-Muhl song. Lennon then subbed out for Adam Green, who did a rendition of “Twist and Shout” with Lazareanu and Muhl.

This was around the time an announcement was made from the stage that Doherty (rumored to be engaged to Lazareanu) had apparently been refused entry at a U.S. airport and sent back to England—a feat that even Courtney Love can’t claim.